One of the things that’s frustrating about Apple’s Maps is that you don’t get the integrated transit information that’s the lifeblood of living in a place like New York City or San Francisco. Google Maps has always had that information integrated into the product, which is a huge help for people who live in those metropolitan areas. The difficulty for Google is to keep up… → Read More
To be clear, there is no live stream of Apple’s upcoming iPad event so we’re giving you the next best thing. If you don’t want to keep your eye on our liveblog from the show floor, you can watch or listen to our news updates live from our NY studios where Jordan and I will attempt to bring all the news that’s fit to obsess over to you, dear viewer.
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Livestream is unveiling a major upgrade to its live video service today. It won’t be fully rolled out until December, but you can see a preview of it here or watch the video below. The new player brings a few firsts to live video: an adaptive bitrate which can adjust dynamically based on the viewers bandwidth up to HD quality (720p); an instant playback DVR feature; a live blogging platform to… → Read More
I’m broadcasting life from the Timecrafter’s watch show in New York with Hugh Dougherty, the Mart & Highlights Editor for the National Association of Watch And Clock Collector’s own watch blog, WatchDig. We’ll be looking at some higher end watches (and some affordable ones as well) and talk about the recent watch show in Basel, Switzerland. → Read More
TimeCrafters is New York’s first high-end watchmaking show featuring many of the brands that we talk about on CrunchGear and my watch podcast. I’ll be streaming the event live at 10am Eastern today and, if you’re in the New York area, you can visit the show tomorrow and Sunday for $20 at the door. → Read More
I have the Motorola Xoom here in my hot little hands and I put it through its paces over the past few days and I’d love to demonstrate and explore the device with your questions in mind. What I’m planning is a 12pm Eastern/9am Pacific LIVE STREAM for one hour TOMORROW Friday, February 25, answering the questions you have about the device and going through some of the screens. → Read More
Not to be outdone, Western Digital just released the Live Plus HD Media Player with Netflix streaming. The $149 box will stream just about anything to any TV and includes a direct storage access system, allowing you to stream video right off of a hard drive. The device outputs 1080p video over HDMI 1.3. It also streams over Wi-Fi. Product Page → Read More
http://cdn.livestream.com/events/crunchgear/new/index.html This is where all of our live content for today’s Apple event will live. To make things perfectly clear, Apple won’t let us film inside the event. However, CrunchGear and a special surprise guest will offer a full play by play. Feel free to turn on your headphones at work and listen to the news as it happens or watch us live… → Read More
While it’s technically called the “Android Press Gathering,” we all know what’s coming. Today, Google is expected to formally unveil the Nexus One (the device which some have been referring to as the “Google Phone”). The long event taking place today is expected to have both a presentation as well as demonstrations. Follow our coverage below, live. → Read More
Nicholas is live at the Barnes & Noble Irex reader event and will report back what he’s seeing including, but not limited to, information on the e-reader. Watch this post for more details as they emerge. → Read More
Greg Kumparak, live from Apple’s “It’s only rock and roll” event in San Francisco… → Read More
We’re live at Nintendo’s press conference at E3 in Los Angeles… → Read More
We’re live at Ubisoft’s conference at E3 in Los Angeles… We expect to see a lot of AssCreed 2, Red Steel 2, Tom Clancy and possibly DLC for Far Cry 2 from Ubi tonight. Stay tuned. → Read More
We’re live at Microsoft’s Xbox 360 press conference at E3 in Los Angeles. → Read More
NASA will be live-streaming the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the “STS-125″ mission that aims to repair and upgrade the Hubble Telescope. → Read More
The iPhone 3.0 Announcement has come to an (abrupt) end. So how did Apple fare according to our Scorecard? Well, as you can see there is still room for improvement, but slighty better than expected – 75 out of 120 possible points. Here is the specific point breakdown: → Read More
We’re live at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California. Don’t forget to print out your play-along-at-home scorecard. → Read More
We’ll be going live at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. MobileCrunch’s Greg Kumparak will be posting right here for your enjoyment. → Read More
John Biggs reporting live from Amazon’s Kindle press event in New York City. Hit the jump to see how it all plays out. → Read More
Welcome to our live coverage of Phil Schiller’s MacWorld 2009 keynote. We are hoping and praying that the server holds out so we’re no trying any special tricks this time – just good old fashioned blog posting. To see updates, please hit F5 to refresh. → Read More
This Friday, we the editors of CrunchGear will be hosting our Gala Online Awards Ceremony complete with dancing bears, punch, and whirling mirror balls. Until then, we invite you, the reading public, to select your favorite – and least favorite – gear of 2008 in our formal 2008 Reader’s Choice Awards. Click through to make your end-of-year picks. → Read More
What better way to toughen up the Wii than with a Nerf game? NASCAR and LittleBigPlanet team up Homestar Extra: Sega Toys’ Homestar Planetarium gets an upgrade Princess Leia pumpkin idea for last-minute carvers Blockbuster’s Top 10 Nightmare-Maker Movies list, do you agree? → Read More
At CEATEC 2008, Fujisoft for the first time presented their “Ulexit” video player for embedded devices. The company will use its technology for “Minna-no (everybody’s) Theater Wii”, a video-on-demand service for the Nintendo Wii. A Fujisoft representative told me the service goes online in December 2008 in Japan. Asked whether Everybody’s Theater Wii will ever… → Read More
Got some bad news for those wanting to get in some COD4 action after work; Xbox Live is down. It just kind of stopped working and the only word comes from the Xbox 360 support site without any indication on when it will be back up. Status: Users will not be able to connect or log into Xbox LIVE. We are aware of the problem and working to resolve the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this… → Read More
What is it about today? First hunter-killers, then Terminator spare parts, and now the machines are infiltrating our armed forces. Actually, it’s not such a big deal; the United States Army is simply continuing to take advantage of its contract with iRobot, which provides the Army with hundreds of Packbots, small robots suited for dirty or dangerous jobs. They’re pumping out about 100… → Read More
Peter Ha is reporting live from a Motorola conference where they’ve just unveiled two new Bluetooth headsets. Their latest, the Motopure H15, was found to have the best overall audio quality from independent tester Metrico. It has next gen Crystaltalk noise reduction for a more natural sounding voice and it is wind-resistant. There are dynamically adjusting speakers built-in and a… → Read More
We’re reporting to you live from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event in the Yerba Buena Center in sunny SFO. Click through to start viewing the live feed. → Read More
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